Human Dev Across the Lifespan

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This course will explore human development through multiple lenses: psychodynamic, systemic, attachment, multicultural, and neuropsychology. This class will introduce theoretical perspectives, as theory is an important foundation for your development as therapists, but theory will be brought to life with clinical material. We will examine development as it shows up in actual clinical cases. We will focus on clinical implications for working with clients in various stages of development. We will look at infancy, childhood, latency, adolescence, emerging adulthood, mid-adulthood, and into death and dying. As per BBS requirements, the class will cover adult abuse, child abuse, intimate partner violence, and foster youth and adoption. Students will learn to work effectively with issues of child abuse assessment and reporting, spousal abuse and family violence and related reporting issues. Issues of geriatric care, long term care and elder abuse will be covered. RESTRICTED TO CMH AND BA/BS ACCELERATED CMH TRACK STUDENTS